Hermann Hesse. The glass bead game (№ 242017)

World history is a race in time, running a race for profit, power, treasure, here the question is who will have enough forces, luck or meanness not to miss the right moment. And accomplishment in the field of spirit, culture, art is the exact opposite, that every time the escape from captivity of time, out of the nothingness of its instincts and its rigidity in a very different plane, in the sphere of the timeless, released from time to time, the divine, is completely unhistorical and anti-historical.